Looking for Greed to Banish Fear   Two basic emotions---fear and greed---dominate the stock market. When stock traders are fearful, they sell everything...

The List Banks Don't Want to Be On   We keep hearing about a dreaded list that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) keeps of banks that are flirting with...

  The housing crisis is far from over. In fact the amount of foreclosures expected to rise in the next 12 months from risky Option-ARMS could dwarf the sub-prime market...

In order to fully understand why debt monetization in its present scale is risky I think it is important to consider some of the specific strategies being used by the Fed. The similarities...